What do I do about my server?

Are you encountering this issue when using our platform API to interact with your Linodes/account or the exposed API of a specific application? Do you have any examples of the API calls you are making (as well as output messages/errors) or can you provide any insight into your use-case, server configuration, etc?

HTTP 405 "Method Not Allowed" is a fairly straight-forward error - the server receives and understand the request, but the target endpoint/application does not accept the designated API method (PUT, GET, POST, PULL, or DELETE).

For example, I tested the following platform API calls to determine the availability of services in our Newark, NJ data center:

GET (correct method):

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.linode.com/v4/account/availability/us-east \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header "authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

# Output:
{
  "region": "us-east",
  "available": [
    "Linodes",
    "NodeBalancers",
    "Block Storage",
    "Kubernetes"
  ],
  "unavailable": []
}

PULL (incorrect method):

curl --request PULL \
     --url https://api.linode.com/v4/account/availability/us-east \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header "authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

# Output:
<TITLE>Bad Request</TITLE>
<H1>Bad Request</H1>
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

In this example, our v.4 API endpoint /account/availability/us-east only accepts the GET method, so all other methods will result in that error.

Receiving this error for an application is a bit different since you will feasibly have control over the acceptable methods, assuming you created the endpoint. For an application like Laravel, you will need to review and modify your PHP routes to ensure that you are exposing endpoints with the necessary API methods.

Personally, I am not familiar with that type of configuration, but I was able to find the following documentation on the Laravel community and on forums such as StackOverflow:

Laravel Documentation:

• HTTP Client - Laravel 11.x - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
• PUT or DELETE method not allowed, only GET HEAD POST
• Status Code: 405 Method Not Allowed message: "The PUT method is not supported for this route. Supported methods: GET, HEAD, POST."

StackOverflow Forum:

• php - Error 405 (Method Not Allowed) Laravel 5 - Stack Overflow
• php - "405 Method not allowed" in Laravel 5.6.14 - Stack Overflow
• javascript - Error 405: Method not allowed - Stack Overflow